Perhaps Obama would like to explain why he was in the minority who voted against a bill that was passed in response to domestic terrorists who perpetrated arson, bombings, and murder to prevent women from exercising their rights. Oh, wait, that was McCain who did that.
“Yo’ running mate so fat, when she sits around the statehouse, she sits AROUND the STATEHOUSE.”
Obama has a pair of Muhammad Ali’s gloves hanging in his office. He probably knows a little about the rope-a-dope.
And here we go…McCain joins in on the attack.
Looks like the ball is in Obama’s court.
Actually, it’s still in McCain’s. That was NOT to his face. Hell, he wasn’t even in the same state.
No, it’s still in McCain’s court. He hasn’t joined the attack, he started it. We already know that McCain is willing to slander Obama when Obama is out of the room. Now let’s see if he has the balls to say it to his his face. Since, to date, McCain is too ashamed and afraid to even look Obama in the eye, I doubt he’s man enough to bring this crap to the debate.
McCain’s internals must look like grim death.
I have no idea what that means.
See post 33.
And I’ve since realized that I cleverly linked to an article that, while informative, does not actually say how McCain voted.
Really? When was this and with whom? It seems unlikely from what I understand of his childhood.
Oh, and there is a way we might see Obama mad during this campaign, though it would not do any good for McCain. He got angry with reporters for that topless beach photo of him. Made me glad I did not have to face him over that. Something similar might well do it again, or just a lot of play of that photo in the wrong context.
I also think there are ways to provoke him to anger, direct threats and harrassment of his family in public would do it, but also destroy anyone who did that. I don’t think you would see him hot-headed, flapping his mouth ala McCain even over that. It would be more like the wrath of G-d-the-Father and I would not want to witness it.
Yes, you’re right; the approach you suggest is much better. I hope he does it, heck, I’d pay good money to watch.
(That would be ETF, by the way.)
Now McCain has a perfect chance to show us that he is not a lying coward.
Heh. Before the second debate, an audience member at one of McCain’s rallies implored him, “When will you take off the gloves and go after Obama?” To which the Hero replied, “How about next Tuesday? Hnyeh hnyeh hnyeh…”
We all know how that one went.
That’s a wonderful way to write out McCain’s laugh.
I hope none of you expects McCain to explode in the next debate. He won’t, no matter what.
Instead, if Obama taunts him to “Say it to his face,” McCain will do exactly that - cooly, statesmanly, logically. At least from his, his point of view. He’ll vomit it all in one fell swoop and Obama will use the rest of the night refuting him.
Just like at his interview with the Desmoine Register? That’d destroy him.
The things some people here have expected and occasionally hoped McCain would say (not just in this thread, I mean overall) are downright bizarre in some cases. He’s not going to jump up and down and scream, and he’s not going to call Obama “boy” or start dropping racial slurs. Neither of them is going to get that confrontational in the debate. I don’t think McCain will get much more direct than making some vague comments about the people Obama has associated with, compared with his own military record. That keeps McCain relatively slime-free while allowing him to claim he stood up to Obama on that issue. And what Obama says about that will be pretty much what he’s saying about it now, not “look and me and say that to my face, old man.” 
And if he tries to pursue the Way of the Guttersnipe and feign dignity on the debate floor, he’ll look like a wimp to the red-meat-eating base that he’s been firing up with this crap.
He’s hosed no matter what he does, and it’s entirely his own fault. Did it never occur to him to wonder why Bush and Cheney had the sense not to get any of the Swiftboat slime directly onto their own hands?
There’s nothing cool, or logical or statesmanlike about any of the allegations, and there’s nothing that takes more than 4 or 5 seconds to refute.